Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Through all of this though, the cowboy nature of the teams, the individual iconoclastic owner/mechanic/designer/drivers, the cigarette money, the vague or not so vague whiff of fraud, that totally embodies the early era of F1. It was the Wild West in Europe. Yep, and just so people can really picture it, I think you kind of know what an F1 car looks like now. An open wheel car with a giant spoiler or rear wing, it's got a front wing. When we first started here in 1950, and really even into the '60s too, these cars didn't look anything like that. They look like soapbox derby cars.…

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